Boris sanchez joins us from the white house. What more do we know . Reporter hey there, anderson, at this point the white house is staying relatively quiet on this. Stephanie grisham, the first ladys Communications Director, greeted reporters at walter reed medical center. She was still wearing scrubs. Shed recently been with the first lady, she was in good spirit. She wouldnt elaborate on her condition or what it was that led her to have this procedure. We dont know if this was a lastminute decision or something long in planning. We also havent heard much from President Trump on this. We actually heard more from the Vice President , mike pence, hes taking part in an event in washington tonight, celebrating israeli independence, and he told the crowd that the first lady is already on the mend and wished her a speedy recovery, anderson. The president wasnt with the first lady during the procedure, which isnt actually all that uncommon for president s. He did visit this afternoon, right
Nice statement. Youve seen a change of tone since that letter was sent yesterday morning, brooke, to kim jong un where the president said it would be inappropriate to hold this summit given the norths hostility toward the u. S. In its previous statement when the president was boasting about u. S. Military prowess. Then as the day went on, you had the statement from north korea saying we still want to meet with the u. S. , well do it at any time, anyplace, even calling the president s decision to have the sum eight brave decision. So youre seeing things sort of take a turn now, this whiplash of is a summit going to happen on june 129 as originally planned . You heard the president say were talking to them now. It might still happen then. Defense secretary mattis said it could still happen on june 12th and Sarah Sanders said as much, too, saying preparations are under way for that and the u. S. Will be prepared for that to happen. What will be telling is if the u. S. Continues with its o
Thdo that. I would advise iran very strongly not to restart their nuclear program. If they do, there will be very severe consequence. We will get to those headlines in a moment. But first the story that could overshadow it all, what the atlantic says merges the two biggest scandals in Donald Trumps presidency in a single tweet. The man at the center of it all is trumps longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen. It started with this from Stormy Daniels attorney, michael avenatti. Quote, attorney mr. Cohen received approximately 500,000 in the months after the election from a Company Controlled by a russian by a Russian Oligarch with close ties to mr. Putin. These moneys may have reimbursed the 130,000 payment. Nbc news has reviewed documents that appear to support avenattis claim that cohens Shell Company, essential consultants llc, received money from a Company Called Columbus Nova which has ties to Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. A man who also has close connections to vladimir putin, a man
Russian oligarch in 7,000 of payments. This development is raising a number of questions, where did all that money go . Whatd that company get in return for payments of anything . And why were funds directed to Shell Company . A Shell Company set up to pay hush money to a porn star. At the same time, michael avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels alleged cohen received 500,000 linked to the oligarch of the election. The first elections coming in after the first multiprimary election, voter in virginia, ohio, north carolina, casting their ballots. What would the results of the midterm elections be . What does that mean for that . I want to bring in cnn exclusive report and talking about that now. Shimon and reporter scan al who broke this story. We probably need to be taking notes at home. Shimon ill start with you. What can you tell us about this . Yeah, hey don. Mueller investigation has questioned a runner oligarch. They questioned about hundred of thousand of dollars made to Michae
His documents is inaccurate. And as trumps pick for cia meets the senate senator, i i dont believe torture works. Dont tell me it doesnt work. Torture works, okay . Are we about to make the mistakes of Bush Administration . I dont believe the administration would ask me to do that. We should go much stronger than waterboarding. Thats the way i feel. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. For the year and a half that we have been tracking every development in the russia story, we had no idea there was another possibly even bigger scandal connected to the Trump Administration and part of the mueller probe, a potential Corruption Scandal that could involve the very same conduct the president accused his opponent of during the campaign. Its called pay for play. If its true, its illegal. Youre paying and youre getting things. It came out to her people pay for play. This is big stuff. Pay for play. Its illegal. Tonight we now know that large sums of money have b